Triton XVIII, Lot: 730. Estimate $750. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Uncertain king. Circa 425-394 BC. AR Quarter Shekel (14.5mm, 3.00 g, 1h). Melkart, holding bow in extended left hand and reins in right, riding hippocamp right; below, waves above dolphin right / Owl standing right, head facing; crook and flail diagonally in background. E&E-T Group II.1.1.2, 408 (O3/R5 – this coin, illustrated); Betlyon –; Rouvier 1789; HGC 10, 324; SNG Copenhagen 302–4; BMC pl. 44, 3 = Ward 817; McClean 9519 (same obv. die); Sunrise 134. VF, toned, light porosity, off center on obverse. Very rare.

From the collection of a Southern Pathologist. Ex Superior (31 May 1989), lot 6105; Superior Money Talks FPL 24/5 (Winter 1988/1989), no. C44; G. Hirsch 159 (21 September 1988), lot 461.